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INSULATING ELECTRICAL GONDTTGT'ORS.

No. 285,673. Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT O. PHILLIPS, OE \VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES,BOOTH 8t HAYDENS, OF SAME PLACE.

INSULATING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,673, datedSeptember 25, 1883.

Application filed June 1, 1883.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT O. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States,residing at \Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theConstruction of Insulated Electric Conductors; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object the coating of the material used incovering wire with braid with paint concurrently with its being braidedupon the wire, so that all parts of the braid, and every individualthread, and every portion thereof, will be wet and saturated with paintor other suitable material as the braid is being woven upon the wire.The result of this process is a wire so thoroughly coated with apaintsaturated braid or braids as to make it as nearly fire and waterproof as possible.

The manner in which I carry out my invention is as follows, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, making part of thisspecification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The wire a is passed down from a reel, Z), through the paint-holdingvessels C C.

cl (1 represent the braiding-heads with spools. The threads from thesespools pass over the edges or rims of the vessels C C, and are braidedon the wire below the surface of the paint in said vessels. The pointbelow the surface of the paint at which the thread is braided on thewire is governed by the speed at which the latter is drawn from the reel6. By this means each thread forming the braid is sat- (No model.)

urated with the paint as it is being braided on the wire, and wheredouble braider is used, as is shown in the drawing, this process isduplicated, producing a very superior article.

g g are friction-rollers for feeding the wire from the reel to thebraiding mechanism.

The mechanism for operating the machine is such as has long been used inmachines of this class, and, being well known to all per sons acquaintedwith such machines, needs no particular description here.

XVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The combination and arrangement, in a braiding-machine, of thepaint-cups C C,braid- M spools, and revolving plates, so as to saturatewith paint each thread as received from the spools, before beingactually braided upon the wire, but in the process of such braiding.

2. In a braiding-machine, the combination and arrangement of the parts,as herein described, to enable the thread to be braided upon the wirewithin the paint-cup and below the surface of the paint therein, asshown and described.

3. As an article of manufacture and sale, an electric conducting-wirecovered with braided threads, each individual thread having beensaturated with paint immediately before being braided, and being braidedon the wire while the paint is still wet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

HERBERT O. PHILLIPS.

Vitnesses:

Gno. \V. MCGILL, HENRY O. Animus.

